About

Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an OggTheora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.

Why the name Istanbul?

I named it Istanbul as a tribute to Liverpool's 5th European Cup triumph in Istanbul on May 25th 2005

News

23 February 2007 - Istanbul 0.2.2 "Camp Nou, 21 Feb 2007"

This release is in memory of the win by the European Champions of 2005 (Liverpool FC) against the current European Champions (Barcelona) in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League at the Camp Nou in Barcelona. This release contains many major bugfixes and it is highly recommended to upgrade.

Features of this release

Ability to select a window to record

Ability to start a screencast from the command line

Support and Bugs

Istanbul uses Gnome bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests.

Developers

SVN is hosted on svn.gnome.org in module istanbul

Contributors to this release

Zaheer Abbas Merali

Frederic Peters

Wouter Bolsterlee

Marc-Andre Lureau

28 July 2006 - Istanbul 0.2.1 "Freedom to record speech" is released

This release is dedicated to the people (Christian, Jew, Muslim and other) who have died in the ongoing war in Lebanon and Israel. Everyone wants an immediate halt to the fighting yet it is not happening, we can only plead by showing our distaste at this unnecessary bloodshed.

Features of this release

Re-factor of code to make it more modular and so easier to read and add new features.

This release is a tribute to one of the best players of the last 10 years. He nearly moved to Liverpool at one point, and would have been welcome by most fans. He also seems to have the media all with him, as evidenced after Italy won the world cup. There whas been more coverage of Zidane than of Italy's win.

Features of this release

Completely revamped UI, no more preferences dialog.

Use gconf to store settings.

Ability to select an area of the screeen and only record it.

Support and Bugs

Istanbul uses Gnome bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests.

Developers

CVS is hosted on cvs.gnome.org.

Contributors to this Release

Zaheer Abbas Merali

Christian Rose

Luca Bruno

Kiddo (sorry I don't know your real name)

17 June 2006 - Istanbul 0.1.2 "Come on England!" is released.

Release notes for Istanbul 0.1.2 "Come on England!"

I am proud to announce a new release of Istanbul, a desktop session recorder.